I know that if you buy a wii points card you normally get charged sales tax but I bought some with my credit card through the wii itself and I got charged 5% MA state sales tax also. Anyone know what the whole story is? Haven't found anything relevant through the search.

How long have you been living in Mass? It's Mass. OF COURSE we have to pay something extra somewhere.
I can't explain it, either. Just another tax, whatever. I live right on the NH border so I'd be able to save a little money if I just went there and bought points cards instead of buying them online, but it's not a big deal to me.

I bought points in Wisco when I was home for Christmas and paid the 5% tax, and yes, it's better than if I bought them here in TX with ridiculous 8.25% tax. It proves what they always say "Everything's worse in Texas".

I'm from New Brunswick, Canada, and I had to pay 20 dollars USD, plus, they charged me the 14% New Brunswick Tax on top of that, AND that 14% was in USD!!! That almost sounds illegal to me! I'm actually paying more tax then my province demands, even though I'm buying it online from another country!!!

I phoned Nintendo on it, and they told me it was too complicated to figure out the exchange rates, so everyone got charged tax in US dollars.

I feel like I should report this somewhere, but I just don't know where....

I'm from New Brunswick, Canada, and I had to pay 20 dollars USD, plus, they charged me the 14% New Brunswick Tax on top of that, AND that 14% was in USD!!! That almost sounds illegal to me! I'm actually paying more tax then my province demands, even though I'm buying it online from another country!!!

I phoned Nintendo on it, and they told me it was too complicated to figure out the exchange rates, so everyone got charged tax in US dollars.

I feel like I should report this somewhere, but I just don't know where....

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Of course the %14 is in US dollars. That's still 14% of what you paid because you paid in US dollars. That makes sense to me. If you paid for it in canadian dollars 1000 wii points would be about $12.00 canadian. You would then get charged %14 on the whole $12.00. What nintendo did makes sense to me. They charged you 14% of 10 american dollars which is $1.40 american. If the transaction was in canadian dollars you would get charged $1.68 canadian in tax.